The first table below looks at the demand for Series 60 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Series 60 over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Manchester region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Series 60 (S60)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Series 60 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester - - -
As % of the Application Development category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
293 386 295
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 31.34% 29.83% 27.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 224 161
Average daily rate £293 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.50% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £230 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £375 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 14 12
Average hourly rate £33.00 £17.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+88.57% -36.36%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £15.00 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £160.50 £33.32 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Series 60
North West

Series 60
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Series 60 across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Manchester Series 60 Jobs Demand Trend

Series 60
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Series 60 also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Series 60.

1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Symbian
1 2 (100.00%) ISEB
1 2 (100.00%) Mac OS X
1 2 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Mobile
1 2 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (100.00%) Android
1 2 (100.00%) iPhone
1 2 (100.00%) iPhone SDK
1 2 (100.00%) bada
1 2 (100.00%) Maemo
1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 2 (100.00%) iOS SDK
2 1 (50.00%) Robotium
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Semantic Web
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) JSON
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Firebug
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Interactive TV
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing

Series 60
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Series 60 also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Series 60. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) iPhone SDK
1 2 (100.00%) iOS SDK
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) JSON
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Robotium
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) Firebug
1 1 (50.00%) Xcode
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 2 (100.00%) iPhone
2 1 (50.00%) Semantic Web
2 1 (50.00%) Interactive TV
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Mac OS X
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Mobile
1 2 (100.00%) Android
1 2 (100.00%) bada
1 2 (100.00%) Maemo
1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) ISEB
1 2 (100.00%) ISTQB
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Symbian